Distributing or delivering liquids in small particles



(No Model) I P. LORILLARD, Jr. DISTRIBUTING 0R DELIVERING LIQUIDS IN SMALL PARTICLES. No. 581,294.

Patented Apr. 27, 1897.v

NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

. PIERRE LORILLARD, JR, OF TUXEDO, NEW YORK.

DISTRIBUTING OR DELIVERING LIQUIDS IN SMALL PARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581 ,294, dated April 27, 1897.

Application filed May 8, 1896. Serial No. 590,659. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, PIERRE LORILLARD,J1., of Tuxedo, county of Orange, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Distributing or Delivering Liquids in Small Particles, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates more particularly to machines for distributing liquid in minute particles upon tobacco, but it is applicable to the distribution of liquids in a similar manner for various otherpurposes, and also to mixing one liquid with another.

I'will describe a machine embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a partly sectional top view of a machine embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A designates a tank containing liquid. As here shown, it is of rectangular form and supported by lugs to.

B designates a screen of foraminous or reticulated material supported with the said tank. As here shown, it is made in the form of a drum, at whose ends are heads 6 b provided with journals that are mounted in bearings supported by sides of the tank. It is intended that this shall rotate Within the tank and pick up and carry liquid from the same to a certain position, whence it shall be discharged. I do not wish, however, to be limited to the special form of screen shown, as my invention is broad enough to cover a movable screen of other shapes.

To impart motion to the rotary screen which I have illustrated, one of its journals is provided with a worm-wheel 19 that engages with a worm C, the latter being mounted upon a shaft 0, which is journaled in bearings affixed to one side of the tank. This shaft is provided with a cone-pulleyc. Opposite this cone-pulley is a reverse cone-pulley d, affixed to a shaft which is mounted in bearings in standards erected upon the floor. A belt E, passing around the cone-pulleys, may be adjusted by a belt-shifter F to different positions for the purpose of varying the speed of the screen.

G designates a discharge-nozzle which is supported behind or within the screen. As shown, it is made to taper from a point opposite the journals of the screen to an edge which extends in close proximity to the periphery of the screen and substantially the whole axial length of the screen. At one end of the larger portion of this nozzle is connected a pipe H, leading from a rotary blower I, the latter being driven by means of a belt J, which can be shifted whenever necessary upon an idler-pulley 2 As the screen slowly moves it picks up liquid from the tank and carries it to a point opposite the dischargenozzle, whereupon air which is forced from the same blows off the liquid in the finelydivided particles in which it is held by the screen. The material which will receive the liquid, being properly located more or less distant from the screen, will have it properly reticulated or foraminous screen, as, for instance, an orifice of any desired shape.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a foraminous or reticulated screen, means for supplying the screen with particles of liquid, a discharge device on one side of the screen, and means for forcing fluid through the discharge device and the screen to project the liquid carried by the latter in a finely-divided state, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a tank containing liquid, a movable foraminous or reticulated screen dipping into said tank and adapted to elevate particles of liquid therefrom, a discharge device on one side of the screen, and means for forcing fluid through the discharge device and the screen to project the liquid carried by the latter in a finely-divided state, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of a tank containing liquid, a foraininous or reticulated screen movable therein and arranged to elevate parand having its point of discharge at or near the periphery of the screen, and means for ticles of liquid from the tank, and means for rotating the latter, substantially as specified.

forcing said particles of liquid from the screen 5 in a finelydivided state, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of a tank containing liquid, a cylindrical foraminous or reticulated screen dipping therein and adapted to elevate 10 particles of liquid from the tank, a discharge device mounted centrally within the screen In testimony whereof I have signed my [5 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PIERRE LORILLARD, J

\Vitnesses:

G. A. LEONARD, E. W. SoMERs. 

